The Strategic Importance, Causes, and Consequences of Terrorism


March 13, 2004
 

 
 
Panel 1: Overview of the State of the Field
 
Scott Atran (U of M Institute for Social Research)
America's Mission Impossible: Strategy on the Altar of Ideology
 
Michael Kennedy (U of M International Institute)
Locating the Roots of Terrorism in Strategic Approaches to Global Insecurity
 
Emilio Cardenas (U of M Law School)
International Terrorism in Latin America

 

Panel 2: Terrorism Research - Psychological Approaches
 
L. Rowell Huesmann (U of M Institute for Social Research)
Young Adult Terrorists: How to Grow One Without Really Trying
 
Jeremy Ginges (U of M Institute for Social Research)
Economic Deprivation and Support for Terrorism: Preliminary Data from Lebanon and Palestine
 
Jon Drummond (US Air Force)
Which Ones Will Be Violent? Correlates of Overt Activism and Criminality among US White Separatists
 
Allison Smith (U of M Institute for Social Research)
Exploring the Relationship between Value References and a Group's Willingness to Engage in Terrorism

 

Panel 3: Terrorism Research - Macrocontexts and Microcontexts
 
Megan Reif (U of M Department of Political Science)
Regime Type, Interstate Alliances, and Terrorist Strategy
 
Mark Tessler (U of M Institute for Social Research)
The Nature and Determinants of Attitudes toward the US and 9/11 in the Arab World
 
Lawrence Pintak (U of M Department of Communication Studies)
In the Eye of the Beholder: How Mass-Mediated Perceptions Drive Terror
 
Najeeb Jan (U of M Department of History)
The Policy of Terror and the Terror of Policy
 
Juan Cole (U of M Department of History)
The Mental World of Al Qaeda

 

Panel 4: How Terrorism Research Can Inform Public Policy
 
Dawn Tilbury and Nandit Soparkar (U of M College of Engineering and Ubiquiti Inc.)
Thwarting Terrorism by Technology
 
Robert Precht (U of M Law School)
The Role of the Judicial Process in Improving Policy Responses to Terrorism
 
Todd Stewart (Ohio State Program for International and Homeland Security)
Conceptual Frameworks for Analyzing Terrorism: Its Motivations, Mechanisms and Consequences